Leslie Cohen, Brendan Finnerty

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May 22, 2016

Dr. Leslie Erin Cohen, the daughter of Dr. Karen M. Kostroff and Dr. Jon R. Cohen of Great Neck, N.Y., was married May 21 to Dr. Brendan Michael Finnerty, the son of Carol S. Finnerty and Stephen J. Finnerty of Naples, Fla. The Rev. R. John Nelson, a retired Roman Catholic priest now affiliated with the Federation of Christian Ministries, officiated in the Observatory at the top of One World Trade Center in New York.

The couple met in 2010 in their general surgery class at the Weill Cornell campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She is now a chief resident in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at its Columbia and Weill Cornell campuses, and he is a fourth-year resident in general surgery at its Weill Cornell campus, where in July he is to become the chief resident of general surgery.

In July, the bride, 31, is to become a fellow in microsurgery in the NYU Langone Medical Center’s department of plastic surgery. She graduated from Stanford and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Her father is the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Quest Diagnostics in Madison, N.J. Until 2006, he was the chief medical officer for North Shore-LIJ Health System, now known as Northwell Health, in New Hyde Park, N.Y. Her mother is the chief of breast surgery for Northwell Health hospitals in New Hyde Park and Manhasset, N.Y.

The groom, 32, graduated from Northwestern and the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

His mother retired as a second-grade teacher at John Y. Dater School in Ramsey, N.J. His father retired as an executive vice president and business manager at Hudson Yards Studios, a provider of advertising and marketing production services in New York.